Robbery

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Police are still investigating a Saturday night armed robbery of an Aberdeen casino. Dave McNeil, police captain, said no arrest had been made as of Sunday. He said a man displayed a weapon and took an undisclosed amount of cash from the Royale Casino, 202 Sixth Ave. S.E. Nobody was hurt, he said. Police responded to a report of a man who used a gun to rob the casino at 9:19 p.m. Saturday. Officers were searching the neighborhood after the report and remained on the scene at 11 p.m. McNeil said the suspect fled the casino on foot headed south.

Police responded Saturday night to an apparent casino robbery in central Aberdeen. Neighbors of the Royale Casino at the intersection of Sixth Avenue Southeast and South Washington Street said that police were inquiring about a reported robbery. A call about a potential armed robbery of the casino by a man with a gun was made about 9:20 p.m. Two police vehicles were in the casino's parking lot at 9:45 p.m., and one remained at 10:15 p.m. Law enforcement officials could not confirm the robbery.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A suspect in a Centerville bank robbery was in custody Tuesday afternoon. KELO television said a man was apprehended after a vehicle chase that ended several miles northwest of Centerville at Turkey Ridge. A robbery was reported shortly after 1 p.m. at the First Midwest Bank. The Turner County sheriff's office told the Press & Dakotan newspaper that the Highway Patrol used an airplane to search for the suspect's vehicle. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Sioux Falls police continue to search for a man who held up a bank and got away with an undisclosed amount of money. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says the man showed a handgun to a clerk at the TCF Bank and demanded money Thursday morning, then fled on foot with the cash. No customers were in the bank at the time. None of the four bank workers was hurt. Clemens says authorities will be studying bank surveillance videos.

SIOUX FALLS — Sioux Falls police are searching for a man suspected of holding up a bank on the west side of the city. Authorities say the call from TCF Bank came in about 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Police are searching for a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt.

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Police are investing a report of an armed robbery at a Sioux falls home early Friday morning. Sgt. Jim Severson says a 20-year-old man says reported that three men entered his home, struck him with a handgun and tied him up with duct tape. Severson says the man told officers that the suspects threatened him and left with money and other small items. Police say the man received a cut on his right forearm and a bruise on his forehead. Ambulance worker treated his injuries.

A man accused of attempting to rob an Aberdeen convenience store last week has been arrested and made a brief court appearance today. Richard L. Flying Horse, 42, did not enter a plea. Magistrate Judge Mark Anderson set a $10,000 personal recognizance bond for Flying Horse, whose next court hearing is scheduled for Dec. 13. Flying Horse is charged with attempted robbery, a felony punishable by as much as five years in state prison and a $10,000 fine. According to court paperwork he tried to steel beer and liquor from South C Store, 1020 S. Main St., the night of Nov. 21. The clerk working was also assaulted, according to documents.

Let's assume they did it. Let's assume that two days before Christmas in 1993, a 22-year-old black woman named Jamie Scott and her pregnant 19-year-old sister Gladys set up an armed robbery. Let's assume these single mothers lured two men to a spot outside the tiny town of Forest, Miss., where three teenage boys, using a shotgun the sisters supplied, relieved the men of $11 and sent them on their way, unharmed. Assume all of the above is true, and still you must be shocked at the crude brutality of the Scott sisters' fate.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Missouri man is appealing his conviction and sentence for robbing three South Dakota banks. Joseph Young's notice of appeal doesn't give a reason, but he criticized his public defender's performance when he was sentenced and asked for a different lawyer. He was convicted by a jury of stealing $11,322 from two Sioux Falls banks and a Mitchell bank in 2007. He was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison after completing a 20-year sentence for bank robbery in West Virginia.